tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post3086974055796077984..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Political Life Then and NowDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-39517771528357545212021-09-08T01:26:39.604-04:002021-09-08T01:26:39.604-04:00Thank you, Professor Kaiser. Students of writing s...Thank you, Professor Kaiser. Students of writing should analyze this essay and try to emulate it. I certainly will. I think this is one of your best since I started reading your blog in 2014. You made an obscure topic engaging in less than 1400 words. It just flows, and I didn't want it to end. It left me sad but hopeful that we can recover the essence of what Beveridge believed an intelligent person should do with his life. <br />Gloucon Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05218027862578514587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-27540584528910620462021-09-07T23:54:58.713-04:002021-09-07T23:54:58.713-04:00Professor
interesting post on an author of a biogr...Professor<br />interesting post on an author of a biography of another.<br />As you say, TR's progressivism was rhetorical.<br />So much of politics here and elsewhere has been.<br /><br />As I have noted, see Nicholas Wade, much of the science of anthropology, biology, and eugenics was considered progressive in its time.<br /><br />America was also against progressivism associated with imperialism, but it, also, was considered highly progressive in its time. <br /><br />Cecil Rhodes was called, and called himself, a conservative, but trust me, for his time, he was a progressive.<br /><br />Think also, for example, of Kipling's "The White Man's Burden".<br /><br />All the best<br />Bozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com